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Indianapolis data center company Bluelock LLC plans to hire about 20 people in the next year after recruiting an ExactTarget executive to help steer its growth. Joe Kuntz, formerly ExactTarget’s vice president of North American sales, has been named executive vice president of sales for Bluelock, he and company CEO Christopher Clapp said Tuesday. Kuntz…

Pat O'Day: Pat is the Chief Technology Officer at Bluelock, a visionary for making the “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) cloud computing model a reality for the business. As an information technology professional, he has over 15 years of experience and defines Bluelock’s services, leads its strategic vendor alliances and supervises the company’s solution strategy.…

That means applications developed with the platform, frequently Java-based, can be deployed as virtual machine workloads to Amazon Web Services; to a private cloud based on VMware's vSphere and vCloud Suite; to a public cloud based on vCloud, such as Bluelock; or to an OpenStack cloud, including Rackspace and HP.

tw telecom has teamed with Bluelock to create and market a cloud-based Dynamic Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) solution to medium-sized businesses. The solution provides businesses with an affordable means of protecting mission critical data and the ability to continue operating as usual in the event of an outage impacting their main data centers, according to Graham…

It's Halloween, so what's on the mind of IT folks? Zombies and disaster recovery, of course. This cheeky infographic comes from Bluelock, a provider of cloud services. The statistics illustrated below show that while the undead are much on the minds of people these days, it is, unfortunately, the very-much-alive human element that is responsible…

Migrating your application isn’t something that you decide to do on a whim one day. A successful migration requires a careful plan, expertly thought-through and prepared. This checklist isn’t meant to serve as your diagram for migration, but rather it’s meant to help guide your plan before it’s crafted and also to service as a…

The last thing you should worry about when a disaster hits is your company’s disaster recovery plan — you should have a solid DR plan, proven effective and designed to move immediately into motion if and when needed. That way, you can bring operations back to normal as soon as possible. And, as a board…

Pat O’Day, CTO at Bluelock, says IaaS can help manage costs of the two types of IT projects common for companies: (a) long-term projects which, over time, can drain IT resources and (b) short-term, business critical computing tasks where speed is everything. In the first case, IaaS can be used to ration the supply of…

Service provider and VMware vCloud partner Bluelock was on hand to tout the growing popularity of its Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) and 5-Series Virtual Datacenters (VDC) offerings, the latter of which has seen revenue growth of 195 percent. That's an impressive sales pace, and this guy seemed to be trying to claw his way out of the…

Why they have a shot: Bluelock is a small, independent outfit that only has datacenters in the United States. But analysts are keeping their eyes on Bluelock as it is the largest VMware vCloud Datacenter provider targeting both mid- and enterprise markets with public cloud services. Analysts laud Bluelock for its proven track record, multi-tiered…

Bryan Bonds, senior systems administrator for eMeter, an energy information division of Siemens located in Foster City, Calif., said his company has recently engaged with vCloud service provider Bluelock, and uses vCloud Director and vCloud Connector to move workloads from a private data center and Bluelock's public cloud service. From vCloud Director, the system to…

Bluelock targets the midsize and enterprise markets with a vCloud data center service for public and private cloud IaaS, with optional managed services. As a close VMware service provider partner, Bluelock is quick to deploy new VMware products and upgrades.

When it comes to the actual migration, there are three key elements that can make or break a project, according to Bluelock’s Jake Robinson. First and foremost is the selection of a migration strategy, which can range from simple data movement to virtual machine replication to full physical-to-cloud migration. Secondly, all data should be evaluated…

Given that virtualization technology is instrumental for managing enterprise-class datacenters in the cloud, VMware has created a program recognizing service providers that have invested substantially in its vCloud infrastructure technology. So far, there are eight service providers designated as vCloud Datacenter Services partners, including Bluelock, of Indianapolis, Indiana, which has just added another virtual datacenter…

The cloud landscape just got a little bit bigger. VMware (NYSE: VMW) vCloud Datacenter-certified partner Bluelock, which provides virtual data centers in the public cloud to its customers, has opened a new data center facility in Las Vegas. Focused on providing its services to enterprises, Bluelock looks to continue to scale out and build up…

“Certification tells me they have knowledge of the topic, and cloud certification will help get them in the door for an interview,” says Erin Swike, director of hosting provider Bluelock’s client services. “But I won’t make a hiring decision based on this alone. Practical experience is more important to me than certification.”

Having to think about how hybrid cloud operations fit into a company's overall information security management scheme could help IT departments reset the appropriate level of security for the processes across the entire enterprise, argues Pat O'Day, CTO at Bluelock, a VMware based cloud service provider in Indianapolis.

We recently spoke with Codero and Bluelock and both are solidly in growth mode with 2012 showing positive results. Insight into momentum can also be found on the product side. Bluelock is a 100% cloud player and is growing at aggressive rates while mixed providers like Pulsant have also shown uptick in cloud growth.

A featured article by Jake Robinson, Solutions Architect at Bluelock. As an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, Bluelock sees a lot of migration of applications. Migration is occurring from physical servers to cloud, from private cloud to public cloud and back to private cloud from public cloud. Migration can be tricky and a poor migration strategy can be…

Bluelock's CTO Pat O'Day shares his industry predictions for 2013. What's the trend? Software defined datacenters, a data center where all infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service, will become the predominant product offering amongst cloud providers.

Bluelock: Out of the blue As a surprise pick as a market leader in the recently published Gartner Magic Quadrant for public cloud IaaS, this 5-year-old Indianapolis-based cloud provider has been gaining some national name recognition. The company's offering is called Bluelock Virtual Data Center, is based on VMware's vCloud, and can be used to…

Bluelock offers IaaS and managed serves using VMware vCloud Datacenter Services. With SAS-70 Type II Certified datacenters, the security this vendor offers for the enterprise market is both appealing and growth-promoting.

Bluelock is one of many regional providers of IaaS whose appearance was spurred by the prevalence of VMware virtualization in the data center and the availability of VMware-compatible cloud management software for service providers. VMware officials in February said they had 94 such partners. Joyent with its SmartOS open-source Solaris IaaS, running in Joyent data…

Cloud services company Bluelock put together an infographic for IT professionals. That’s timely, because in my experience hard-core developers (particularly those in mobile and web services) are often fairly knowledgeable about cloud offerings … but a significant chunk of the more IT-focused technology workers are not.

Although not very well known to the general public IaaS businesses do provide some of the most interesting services that could actually be used by individuals just as well as by some businesses. For example Bluelock provides companies the ability to build public, private or both cloud services and it further allows companies to monitor…

Many of VMware cloud service provider partners including Bluelock, iLand, NTT America and Savvis have already committed to offering new cloud application provisioning and maintenance services based on VMware vFabric Application Director.

"Service providers are working hard to differentiate themselves from other IaaS vendors," he said. vCloud partners that plan to support VFAD blueprints include BlueLock, iLand, Savvis, NTT America and TechDemocracy.

Indeed, some people at IT organizations who have embarked on a traditional private cloud project are concerned that private cloud didn't fix the problems it was supposed to solve, said Pat O'Day, CTO at BlueLock, a cloud provider based on VMware's vCloud offering. "[Many] implemented the private cloud, but it didn't really turn them into…

The cloud promises unlimited capacity, pennies per hour to operate, 4+ nines of uptime and infrastructure managed by a dedicated staff. Even technical challenges around security and compliance can be achieved and are no longer suspect. So why wouldn't you send everything to the cloud?

(Part 2 of 2) In terms of real-world skills needed in a cloud environment, service provider IT professionals should consider brushing up on Ruby, .NET, Java, along with Chef, Puppet and Python. The Cloud Security Alliance is a good source for training and certification courses. And it helps to study the path of market-share leaders…

(Part 1 of 2) "This is a quantum shift, a very big change," said Pat O'Day, chief technology officer (CTO) of Bluelock, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider in Indianapolis, Ind. "It used to be you could spend 40 hours a week turning a wrench. That's not necessarily going to be the case anymore…

Bluelock is about the closest thing you'll get to a VMware public cloud. The company is part of VMware's vCloud Data Center Service, meaning it leverages VMware tools to power its offering. It is one of the first to roll out new VMware features and its product roadmap is aligned with that of VMware's, Gartner…

Jake Robinson remembers the day when he really understood what it means to work on "the other side of the cloud." It was Thanksgiving, a couple of years ago. A retail client of Robinson's employer, Indianapolis-based cloud service provider Bluelock, posted on its site an iPhone app designed to give users access to coupons and…

Bluelock, an IaaS provider in Indianapolis with experience in managing virtual infrastructure, became diligent about VM backups from the company's start, according to Ben Miller, product solutions director at Bluelock. "We actually started off by treating our own infrastructure as a service that we need to run our business," Miller said. "We back up every…

(Free download) Indeed, some people at IT organizations who have embarked on a traditional private cloud project are concerned that private cloud didn’t fix the problems it was supposed to solve, said Pat O’Day, CTO at Bluelock, a cloud provider based on VMware’s vCloud offering. Many “implemented the private cloud, but it didn’t really turn…

BlueLock, a relatively new company, is growing at 50 percent. Overall, colo is growing at around 20 percent, hosting is between 23-27 percent, mass market hosting at 10-13 percent, and cloud is growing at between 40 and 60 percent.

Those issues and the order they're in roughly match what Bluelock LLC, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider based in Indianapolis, hears from enterprises and SMBs, according to Pat O'Day, Bluelock's chief technology officer. These sunk costs in IT are still depreciating, O'Day said. "This happened in virtualization too because a lot of companies…

There is no question that Cloud Computing is a hot topic today. Still, with all of the wonderful benefits the Cloud can offer, certain challenges arise as well. In the below interview, Bluelock’s CTO Pat O’Day outlines how to traverse some of these Cloud Computing roadblocks, and which applications are key to improving the user…

The infrastructure for BlueLock Virtual Datacenters runs on Hewlett-Packard servers, packing in 512 GB of RAM each. VMware licensing is a very small percentage of BlueLock's overall costs, O'Day said. Given the 24 GB per VM cap, the company could probably add even more RAM to each server, O'Day said.

VMware has commissioned a handful as its top-tier suppliers using vCloud Suite with data centers around the world. They include BlueLock, Dell, CSC, and AT&T in the U.S.; Singtel in Singapore; Softbank in Japan; and Colt and Deutsch Telekom's T-Systems unit in several European countries. CSC, Dell, and T-Systems are new additions to the top-tier…

Bluelock introduced Bluelock 2-Series Virtual Datacenters, which offer customers a scalable, on-demand Virtual Datacenter for deployment of public cloud resources. Bluelock said it developed two infrastructure platforms with differing resource and service options so that customers could choose among various performance, features and security requirements.

(Free registration required to read) In this Q&A, we talk with Jake Robinson, a systems engineer at Indianapolis, Ind.-based data center provider Bluelock LLC., to find out what he thinks of the new VMware cloud certification and how interested IT professionals should prepare for a future exam.

DevCentral runs F5’s cloud-based ADN solution in the Bluelock cloud, while simultaneously incorporating the best IT practices for added scale, control, and security. Previously, DevCentral was deployed in a basic, one-size-fits all enterprise IT environment, and needed a new business plan to strengthen its global community and accelerate and optimize their DevOps initiative.

If downtime is not an option, there is a growing industry around recovery as a service (Raas)... There are more than 50 providers in this space now, Morency says, ranging from big-name IaaS providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Terremark and Sunguard, to other players such as Bluelock, Hosting.com and HP, along with others. These providers…

Most of AWS's competition—companies such as Terremark, Savvis, Bluelock and their global brethren—pursue an enterprise strategy. Enterprise CSPs implement "enterprise-grade" infrastructure from Cisco, EMC, HP and their top-end competitors, and they boast about it, implying that its reliability outstrips AWS.

One of the reasons that a lot of IT organizations are not all that comfortable with cloud computing is because they don’t have a lot of visibility into the true costs of cloud computing. The biggest fear, of course, is paying for cloud resources that don’t wind up being used because the compute resources for…

F5's DevCentralized Gets Cloudy F5 Networks' community can now do all the cool things it's been doing in the cloud. By Zeus Kerravala on Thu, 06/14/12 - 11:14am. Communities of interest have been all the rage over the past few years. Just this year alone we’ve seen Infoblox, Aruba and other tech vendors launch online…

VMware supplier's tool is designed to prevent cloud bill shock by telling customers what their bill will be and how to adjust usage to stay within the monthly budget. It's not uncommon to hear cloud customers talk about how their cloud costs got away from them. If you don't need a set of servers you've…

Pat O'Day, Bluelock's CTO and Co-founder, was named to Wired.com's Top 10 List of Cloud Influencers and Thought Leaders. Here's what Wired.com had to say about O'Day: "As a visionary behind the IaaS business model, O’Day helped Bluelock become one of the most strategic VMware cloud providers and one of the first to offer the…

Citrix executive, Peder Ulander states that CloudStack will be another choice for building private clouds. Can CloudStack and OpenStack, two similar open source projects, survive? Basically, Ulander makes the case that CloudStack and OpenStack are different enough that there's room for more than one open source project.

A team of TechTarget contributors worked together to come up with this year's top 10 cloud providers. There has been a lot of change in the cloud computing arena since last year’s top 10 list. The raft of new technologies delivered over the past year or two has enticed many larger IT shops to launch…

NetworkWorld has compiled a list of the "10 Most Powerful IaaS Companies" in the public cloud infrastructure as a service arena. This list was assembled by analysts who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. Each analyst was asked to name the companies they believed have the most influence - whether…

Computerworld's Robert Scheier explains how virtualization and replication technologies protect data from disaster, while keeping business services humming. Some providers say cloud-based disaster recovery will bring the benefit of true disaster recovery, rather than just backup, to small and midsize businesses that until now couldn't afford it. Pat O'Day, co-founder and CTO of Bluelock, a…

Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announces it was named one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors by CRN. The comprehensive list highlights the most innovative companies across the five major cloud categories: cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, cloud storage, cloud security and cloud software.…

AMD's lead evangelist, Vlad Rozanrich, spoke with Bluelock's Directory of Technology, Aaron Branham, about Bluelock's decision to power their public cloud infrastructure with AMD-based HP ProLiant servers. Branham notes Bluelock's new POD architecture employs AMD Opteron™ processors because on their price, performance, and platform versatility. Improvement from this hardware upgrade include an increased size of…

CRN named Bluelock to their 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors list for 2012 for the second year in a row. CRN states these cloud infrastructure vendors host business applications, provision applications on-demand, and store and secure data in the cloud. Vendors listed deliver with private cloud, public cloud or hybrid cloud strategies. CRN notes Bluelock's…

Bluelock today announced the availability of VMware vCloud Director 1.5 in its certified VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. This new release delivers increased agility, while making it easier for customers to adopt a cloud computing model leveraging their existing IT investments.

Registration is now open for Bluelock's upcoming free webinar "Hybrid Cloud: A Pragmatic Approach for the Enterprise." Two lucky webinar attendees will win a Kindle Fire! Learn how hybrid cloud is evolving the way IT departments and business units interact with technology and get more leverage from infrastructure resources. Pat O’Day, CTO, will explain the…

Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announces that the company has been named to the fifth-annual MSPmentor 100 Global Edition, a distinguished list and research report identifying the world’s top 100 managed service providers (MSPs). This is the third consecutive year Bluelock has been named…

Bluelock was just named #43 on the 2012 MSPmentor 100 Global Edition, a list of the world's top 100 managed service providers. This is the third straight year Bluelock has been named to this list. MSPmentor writes "[Bluelock's] winning mix of cloud services and traditional managed services has allowed them to generate more than 40…

A new VMware vCloud Connector plugin, available later in 2012, is designed to give VMware vSphere partners, like Bluelock, a single management view to move workloads around. VMware’s announcement, made at VMware Partner Exchange in Orlando, was called a “milestone” in the hybrid cloud market. Notably, cloud service provider Bluelock has used VMware's vCloud Datacenter…

VMware users who want to run virtualized workloads in the cloud now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a wide variety of worldwide geographies. In addition, VMware is redoubling its efforts to make those service providers more functional and effective.

Bluelock's CTO, Pat O'Day, shared his 2012 cloud predictions with Virtual Strategy Magazine. Pat emphasized the proliferation of selling cloud services in 2012. Everyone will feel compelled to have a cloud offering because the customer community is starting to show significant interest and actual buying behavior for cloud services. The barrier to entry into the…

If you are looking to virtualize some of your data center and host it in the cloud, you probably have heard about Amazon's EC2 by now. But one IT shop used EC2 as a strawman to consider what they really needed from their eventual service provider. It is interesting and instructive to see the steps…

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, Dec 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) - Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud(R) Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has placed Bluelock in the "Leaders" quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS).

A new Gartner Magic Quadrant report is available this week covering the public cloud computing vendors. Bluelock got props, among other big names included Amazon Web Services, Terremark, Savvis and CSC. The report is very detailed in the usual Gartner manner and is a must-read for enterprise IT architects who are evaluating players in this…

Free upgrade for vSphere and vCloud Director users includes search function to help you easily locate virtual workloads. VMware released free upgrades to vCloud Connector for users of the virtualization company's vSphere operating system for physical data center environments and vCloud Director for managing private clouds. The release adds a search function not even in…

Cloud computing infrastructure-as-a-service is redefining hosting, enabling companies to rent computing and networking capability using a pay-as-you-go model. Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is arguably the future of hosting. Traditional hosting companies, carriers and a bevy of service-provider newcomers all have a stake in this new market space.

By 2014, almost one in three midsize businesses will be using a recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) with the ability to backup and restore virtual machines (VMs), according to Gartner. Gartner predicted that 30% of companies will use RaaS over the next few years, with the market being driven, for now, by midsize companies. The research firm defines…

Welcome to the Public Cloud Diaries – an ongoing project that documents the business situations and challenges that companies have experienced when moving to the public cloud. Dimensional Research, a company that provides practical research services for technology companies, interviewed real VMware customers across various industries to examine their individual challenges and needs when choosing…

Cloud computing depends on connectivity and availability, but those can be far from perfect with some providers. Disruptions to a public cloud can impair the productivity of an entire organization, unless data center administrators know what to do when it happens—and it will happen. In this tip, you will learn how to choose a public…

Cloud computing is hot these days; there’s no denying it. And Bluelock, provider of enterprise cloud hosting solutions, is riding that wave today. The company’s phenomenal growth of 939% from 2008 to 2010 put it high on the list of the Technology 200. That growth, says CEO Christopher Clapp, comes from several things: the company…

Five Indiana companies are on this year's Technology 200 list compiled by Lead411. The rankings of the fastest growing tech businesses in the U.S. are based on revenue growth. The companies on this year's list were chosen from more than 600 applicants. The Indiana companies that made the rankings include Slingshot SEO, BlueLock, iGoDigital, RICS…

The startup space is getting more and more crowded with companies that want to skyrocket to fame and riches, but only a handful actually get there. Each year, Lead411, an information services company, hosts the Technology 200, a list focused on the top revenue-producing startups in technology. The list is ranked based on the highest…

Article by Bluelock's CTO Pat O'Day: The most important thing is to determine what the right use cases are for your organization to adopt cloud. Battles over formats and standards in the technology industry aren't new. Whether it was e-mail, word processing, graphical images or even some more current like the apps on your smart…

Virtualization, which allows one server to virtually act as several virtual servers, has become an increasingly important technology for businesses of all sizes. And we're seeing a reflection of that in the marketplace.

VMware vCloud program lets enterprises acquire, provision, manage and move between multiple service providers. VMware is expanding its vCloud program, enabling enterprises to buy and move their virtualized assets across multiple service providers. The vCloud is VMware's program for service providers to run VMware virtualized clouds. The vCloud program was announced last year and is…

Minneapolis, MN (September 20, 2011) – enStratus announced today that it has added support for Bluelock Virtual Datacenters. With this new support, Bluelock clients gain cloud management, governance, and automation capabilities provided through the enStratus platform.

By combining new and existing products in a package designed to facilitate customers using 5,600 VMware service providers in 62 countries, VMware is emphasizing its drive to the enterprise hybrid cloud. In so doing, The company is offering its vCloud customers a myriad of cloud services based on VMware cloud infrastructures that are compatible with…

Service provider Bluelock launched a support tool called Bluelock Portfolio, which gives organizations insight into the utilization costs of their cloud infrastructure, which they can then use to optimize their operations and ensure that their getting the ROI they're seeking.

To open VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas VMware launched several new vCloud offerings and a new extension of its Cloud Application Platform strategy, vFabric Data Director. VMware (VMW) announced several new vCloud offerings to help enterprises connect and manage cloud services from the large network of service providers. VMware announced Global Connect, an optional feature…

When it comes to transforming the data center, VMware is writing the story. And the theme is automation. There are 800,000 IT staffers now carrying the title of virtual machine administrator, said VMWare CEO Paul Maritz in an address to 19,000 attendees at VMworld Monday. What he didn't say was that he's trying to make…

First cloud-aware decision support tool enables customers to truly understand the cost of IT, helping to make fast, effective decisions and avoid unnecessary spending. Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announced the availability of Bluelock Portfolio™, the first cloud-aware decision support tool. Bluelock Portfolio offers…

VMware envisions a world where applications can roam across one big intercloud. Apps won't just jump from internal data centers to public cloud services, the company believes. They'll move from cloud to cloud like phone calls across cell networks. That's why VMware is keen on getting its vSphere server virtualization not only in the corporate…

As virtualization leader VMware opens its annual VMworld conference in Las Vegas today, it's launched a raft of new products designed to ease managing virtual machine technology for corporations, as well as lined up several new partnerships to help companies find, connect and manage its cloud services.

VMware is understandably anxious to prove that cloud users actually exist and are not, as VMware Senior Director of Cloud Services Mathew Lodge blogs, “a figment of a fevered imagination.” Toward that end, Lodge has posted the details on six VMworld Cloud Infrastructure and Management sessions where the reclusive and elusive cloud user can be…

Along with the release of vSphere 5, widely acclaimed as a technical success and a potential licensing crisis, VMware has unveiled vCloud Director 1.5 (vCD 1.5). Both are not available yet, but the details have been released. Users hail it as a great start to getting a viable private cloud from VMware.

VMware has updated its vSphere virtualisation suite and introduced a new Cloud Infrastructure Suite that it hopes will make, "infrastructure go away," according to CEO Paul Maritz. Maritz added that VSphere 5 is the, "first step along the road to a more automated world where infrastructure is something people can just rely on." VMware's boss…

VMware has unveiled the latest version of its vSphere hypervisor – vSphere 5 – along with a suite of additional technologies for building what the world insists on calling "infrastructure clouds." The Cloud Infrastructure Suite includes new versions of the company's vShield security platform; its vCenter Site Recovery Manager, for disaster recovery; and its overarching…

Only two years after VMware announced vCloud Express, the program appears to be foundering, undone by a lack of both serious interest from end users and of compelling remuneration for providers. vCloud Express was launched in 2009 as a way for managed hosting providers with a VMware customer base to offer an Amazon Web Services…

With an economic recovery blowing against their backs, a number of Indianapolis-area companies saw growth slingshot ahead in 2010. Technology was a common field for this year’s list of fastest-growing private companies, but some also specialized in mortgages, furniture and home health care. Right place, right time—that’s the story behind BlueLock’s meteoric 939-percent growth over…

In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its "Hottest Companies in Midwest" award. The Indiana companies on the list include Blue Lock, Scale Computing, ChaCha, Angie's List and ExactTarget.

Cloud service providers have carved out an important niche in business today, having aligned themselves with the latest technology phenomenon, cloud computing. Initially popular thanks to constrained budgets post-recession, cloud computing has fast become indispensable to companies of all sizes that wish to slash costs and tap into a more agile and scalable infrastructure. Although…

As you’ll learn in this weekend’s IBJ, cloud computing firm BlueLock is the fastest-growing private company in the Indianapolis area. You can read the financial details for yourself, but it’s fair to say they’re scorching. Most of that growth was managed by a team spearheaded by John Qualls, and then last year the firm brought…

Scaling IT means using tools and services on both sides of the cloud divide. A divide as real as any weather front separates private, wholly owned data centers from public, capacity-for-hire cloud providers. There is a role for IT in creating a bridge across this divide as virtualization of all types enables more efficient application…

In an exclusive interview, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talks about an elite group of providers that will offer VMware infrastructure for hybrid enterprise clouds. In most cases, a public cloud service will charge more to host your infrastructure long term than it would cost you to purchase and maintain that infrastructure yourself. By the same…

Hacking attacks against Sony and other companies in recent months have a cloud hanging over cloud computing—the hot trend of storing data on remote servers and accessing it through the Internet. “It sets everybody back,” Pat O’Day, CTO for infrastructure-as-a-service company Bluelock, said of the spate of high-profile data breaches. O’Day was among panelists in…

What happens when you no longer care what hardware your apps are running on? Not to mention what operating system or virtualization platform. Network World has conducted multiple tests of cloud-based services over the past year, and our overarching conclusion is that shifting compute processes to the cloud can help companies save money and become…

Amazon Web Services provides an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud that small startups to enterprise organizations have trusted because it is scalable, comprehensive and affordable. And yet, the outage that led to sites like Foursquare and Reddit being dark for a full day raises questions of reliability. There are a number of web services…

For enterprises considering moving their IT operations to the cloud, the market can feel a little overwhelming. Datamation highlighted 15 promising cloud computing vendors carving out a niche for themselves in this emerging arena. Though by no means comprehensive, this list serves as a primer for some of the innovative startups whose offerings range from…

Xsigo Systems, Inc., a provider of I/O virtualization, on Wednesday announced that Bluelock, an experienced provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, has deployed Xsigo virtual I/O in their VMware vCloud® services data center. As a result, Bluelock has boosted scalability with 8X greater virtual machine capacity, and reduced infrastructure hardware requirements by…

VMware has been able to more or less hold the line on its pricing for its enterprise server virtualization tools despite intense competition from Microsoft and Citrix Systems. But with the first big wave of enterprise license agreements coming up for renewal, the virtualization juggernaut has had to start discounting a bit. Luckily, VMware is…

The inside story of how Lehman Brothers is being dismantled in the Bluelock cloud. James Johnson, Lehman Brother's CIO, had to support current business and at the same time support the wind-down of global assets in the wake of filing for Chapter 11 and the economic meltdown. Johnson and his team concluded that that the…

Bluelock's CTO and Co-founder, Pat O'Day, spoke with Virtual-Strategy Magazine covering an overview of Bluelock and where it fits into the cloud computing ecosystem. Pat discusses Bluelock's target clients, cloud security concerns, virtualization strategies, and barriers to entry. Is cloud computing right for all companies and applications?

Here are 20 cloud infrastructure vendors that are making the infrastructure game their own and altering the way IT is consumed. "Bluelock comes at the cloud from a different way, offering cloud computing and managed services backed by VMware vCloud Datacenter Services."

One of the most important projects any IT department can undertake is the selection of a new IT platform. “If you’ve already decided on VMware for your virtualization stack, moving to the cloud will be made easier by using VMware’s vCloud Director product, which connects virtualization to the cloud orchestration layer used by VMware vCloud…

Operating system expertise is combined with a cross-hypervisor approach to offer a "service factory" for the visual assembly of software stacks. RPath has added a drag-and-drop interface to its software stack building system, now called rPathX6, to make it easier to build a virtual appliance or other software stack and track each of its configurations.…

With new tablets and app stores being unveiled every week, app store maker Partnerpedia says tablet and smart phone vendors will be building out business-focused app stores in the near future. The firm launched a software-as-a-service platform to help mobile device vendors develop their own branded enterprise app stores and also works with enterprise IT…

VMware is taking its willingness to manage the virtual infrastructure a step further than it's gone before. The company announced Tuesday that it was mapping the topology of physical and virtual systems so that virtual machines could be deployed either inside the data center or outside beyond the firewall in the cloud. In the past,…

VMware's vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in that makes it a snap to transfer VMware virtual machines, templates and vApps between clouds. In a typical VMware cloud setup, if you assume that VMware ESX installations are clouds, one needs to export VMs to a temporary location, then import them…

IT dreams of a single console for managing virtualization sprawl, but today's tools are piecemeal. Robert Scheier argues IT wants fewer, more comprehensive virtualization management tools. But for now, specialized vendors tackle different challenges. Virtualization cuts hardware, power and real estate costs by combining multiple servers, networks and storage arrays into virtual pools. But for…

As you surely have noticed, IT is going through a radical change. The availability of on-demand computing infrastructure, services and applications over the Internet — i.e., the cloud — is pushing the organizational computing paradigm from primarily an internal proprietary function to an extended services environment. At the same time, mobile devices are becoming the…

Bluelock has been a vCloud service provider for the past year and has taken an enterprise IT-centric approach to their cloud services. They are not going after the SMB web hosting market, and don’t want to sell to everybody. Their primary focus is on mid-tier enterprises looking for a provider that will deliver cloud in…

The confusion over cloud service model definitions continues to be driven by the pace of evolution in the market. Defining the myriad service offerings to find the right formula for your business, author Jennifer Kavur demystifies the cloud. The industry continues to spend a lot of time defining what the three cloud service models are.…

Pat O'Day, Bluelock's CTO, was featured in PCToday.com's digital magazine. The article titled "Managing Your SLAs," by Rod Sher, is a service level agreement primer that explains how most executives fail to use SLAs properly. O'Day adds "An SLA is the way most service providers offer some level of commitment in writing to a specific…

SearchCloudComputing.com's Top Ten Cloud Providers for 2011 is here! Jo Maitland and Carl Brooks of CloudCoverTV discuss the winners and the losers on this week's episode. Most of the same names are there but we grade their performance over the last year and add a few new ones as well.

CloudCoverTV decided it was time to blow the cobwebs off their list of top 10 cloud computing service providers. Much has happened since last year's top 10, and we're proud to introduce the best of the best for 2011. Our rankings are based on customer traction, solid technical innovation and management track record.

VMware advanced its cloud computing strategy this week with the release of VMware vCloud Datacenter services from partners and a free plug-in called vCloud Connector that gives customers the valued "single pane of glass" management view of public and private cloud services.

Dave DiMeo, service delivery network operations manager at Ford Motor has a mouthful of a title. And while the word "cloud" isn't part of it, it might as well be. The service delivery network, what DiMeo calls a cloud, provides a way for Ford to mesh data from external vendors and information stored within the…

Providing a vital link between internal and external clouds, VMware plans to release in March an adapter for moving virtual machines between a hosted service offering and an organization's own internal systems, the company announced Tuesday. In addition, the company announced that three service providers -- BlueLock, Colt and Verizon -- are now offering cloud…

VMware has been banging the drum for hybrid public and private cloud infrastructure, and at VMware's Partner Exchange conference, which is being held this week in Orlando, the drumming is about to get louder. VMware unveiled a free plug-in Tuesday called vCloud Connector, which lets customers deploy and manage virtual machines in private and public…

VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced it has reached a milestone in delivering the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud® Datacenter services from BlueLock and Colt and beta services available from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free plug-in that will allow all VMware vSphere®…

The Frugal Tech Show, hosted by Ken Hess and Jason Perlow, is a podcast series highlighting frugal IT solutions, news, and interviews with top technology executives. Bluelock's CTO, Pat O'Day, gave an interview for their featured February 4th episode. The interview covers the benefits and services of BlueLock as a cloud hosting provider built off…

BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, today announces that the company has been named to HostReview’s 2010 Web Host Awards’ Best Cloud Computing Service list. HostReview’s annual Best Web Hosting Awards recognize innovators and market leaders, rewarding outstanding contributions within the web hosting industry. Read press release.

Bluelock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces that iPartners, an on-demand business intelligence and management reporting company for the property and casualty insurance industry, has selected Bluelock as its cloud provider. With the announcement, iPartners will use Bluelock’s cloud-based disaster recovery services to back up their data and systems hosted…

The blogosphere has been ablaze with some calling the deal "genius" while others calling for greater Securities and Exchange Commission scrutiny of these types of secondary market transactions. While the terms of the deal may be subject to interpretation, there is little doubt that companies in the tech sector will continue to make front page…

Do you know what a client goes through to do business with your company? John Qualls does. It’s a key reason why the co-founder of BlueLock can feel pretty confident that his customers are smiling after they have dealings with his people.

Cloud computing vendors may be popping the bubbly well into the new year, as a handful of promising cloud computing startups have started off 2011 with sizeable financial injections to get the ball rolling.

This past year has been a good one for cloud computing. According to Gartner, the cloud services market grew to $68.3 billion in 2010, a 16.6 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $58.6 billion. Gartner predicts that by 2014, cloud services revenue will balloon to $148.8 billion worldwide.

If 2010 was the year of the cloud, then the cloud computing market will be a brand new beast come 2011. By many accounts, 2011 will be the year that the hype surrounding cloud computing will become a reality and partners and end users will start realizing the actual value of the cloud versus determining…

Last week, I linked to an Amazon Web Services blog post announcing its new VM Import feature, which lets users upload and convert VMware images into Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). I asked at the time why VMware users would choose AWS for this capability instead of a VMware vCloud partner such as BlueLock or Terremark,…

What if you could shop for your cloud services from an app store that’s created to meet the IT needs of your enterprise? One chief technology officer predicts that will happen in 2011 and will follow the consumer electronics style of Apple’s iTunes.

TZ Limited's wholly owned subsidiary, Telezygology, Inc. (TZI) and its Infrastructure Protection operating business unit announce the completion of the first North American installation of the TZ Centurion micro-protection platform complete with TZ Centurion Server control software for BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services. The TZ Centurion platform was installed…

If the economy is any indicator of what’s to come in the next few years, things aren’t looking too good for most startups. Yet, against the odds, 500 tech startups have seen positive growth over the last few years, and are projected to continue growing, according to Lead411's Technology 500 list.

Brian Modiano, CFO for the cloud computing company BlueLock, is coming off a hectic year. The young startup he helps oversee, which only employs about two dozen, took on a major new client, undertook construction of a new data center, and continued to expand and innovate in a rapidly changing marketplace.

Lead411 recently released their Technology 500 list for 2010 and BlueLock has been ranked #37! The rankings are derived by calculating the highest percentage revenue growth from the year 2007 to the year 2009.

When virtualization technology first came on the market, there was a lot of confusion as to what it was and whether it could really be used for production workloads. In the beginning, it was tough going. Hosted virtualization products, such as Microsoft Virtual Server, didn’t provide the best performance. However, over time virtualization technology matured…

As we continue work on our fourth-annual MSPmentor 100 survey, it’s an ideal time to look back at companies from our third-annual MSPmentor 100 list. Among the companies we’ve been watching: BlueLock, which has leveraged virtualization and managed services to gain some cloud momentum. Here’s how BlueLock’s cloud hosting offerings fit into the IT channel, according…

Leadership Moves Support Cloud Hosting Company’s Growth Plans. Bluelock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces the appointment of Christopher Clapp as chief executive officer to lead the company through its next phase of growth. John Qualls, co-founder and CEO since the company’s inception in 2006, will assume the role of…

Indiana's statewide technology initiative has released more details about its upcoming Innovation Summit at the Indiana Convention Center. TechPoint says two panel discussions will focus on utilizing social media to communicate with customers and how to best take advantage of cloud computing to lower costs.

VMworld is one of those conferences that you really feel like a rookie the first time you go. It is such a huge event. The conference is vast. It can be more complicated to understand virtualization then figure out where to go at Moscone. We spent a good part of our time talking with people…

There’s no doubt that interest in private cloud computing is growing rapidly. But just because a cloud is private doesn’t mean it will be running on-premise. In fact, chances are that most private cloud computing implementations will run on public cloud infrastructure. One of the cloud computing providers trying to get an early jump on…

Best Cloud Computing Providers Awards show those companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers. Deploy and scale effortlessly in the abstracted global computing cloud. Included in the reviewing process are the price, technology, reliability and overall performance of the hosting company.

Our Pick: Hybrid Clouds The hybrid cloud has arrived. Is it a more sane alternative to the private cloud? We think so. It looks like a smart move for VMware. It extends its partnerships with cloud services providers like Verizon, BlueLock and Savvis. Plus, it gives customers the benefits of extending to a public cloud…

Admitting the imbalance is a good start. One of our first meetings at VMworld was with BlueLock, who have the distinction of being one of a small handful of cloud service providers participating in VMware’s big vCloud Datacenter initiative. We spent a bit of time grilling Pat O’Day, Bluelock CTO, in their booth and learned…

Data centre service provider BlueLock has announced the availability of the CloudConnector management tool for VMware customers. The tool allows customers to manage their workload between a private and public cloud. The announcement, which was made during the VMworld conference, is a part of VMware's move to provide external data centre services via five partner…

Some big names are signed up along side VMware nowadays – EMC, Cisco, Intel and HP to name but a few. Today’s news drop caught my attention in particular though and not because it ties in some more partners (Verizon Business, Terremark and Bluelock) but because of what one of those partners, Bluelock, is bringing…

John Qualls is used to setting his own high standards. He did it when he was growing up in a broken home, not living in the same place from week to week during his formative high school years. Qualls knew he could do better for himself and worked hard to get straight A’s by his…

Worcester, MA (PRWEB) June 28, 2010 -- Wright Line today announced that it has integrated its patented Heat Containment System (HCS) into BlueLock’s world-class, SAS 70 certified data center. BlueLock is an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services headquartered in Indianapolis.

As cloud computing continues to move from "early adopters" to the "early majority," many online retailers are starting to evaluate the cloud as a valuable alternative. Lower upfront and running capital expenses, lower operation expenses, faster time to market, increased scalability and flexibility, as well as pay "by the drink" pricing, are just some of…

(Indianapolis, Indiana – May 18, 2010) – BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services, announces that TechPoint, Indiana’s economic development initiative focused on technology and entrepreneurship, selected BlueLock in the Information Technology Gazelle Company category at the annual Mira Awards Gala. Now in its 11th year, the TechPoint Mira Awards highlight…

You could argue that EDS and IBM have been offering “cloud” computing for many years. They have outsourced the data operations of some of the world’s largest companies. They have purchased and built very large data centers, often with many customers in the same facility. They often own and manage the hardware and systems software.…

As server technology becomes more and more important to the health of a company, we are seeing a shift to moving a company’s servers to outside buildings designed specifically to house servers. These are known as co-location facilities. These facilities have security, power, cooling and Internet access to keep them safe, secure, and running at…

In 1999, the Internet hype was nearing its peak and I was running a successful software company serving the banking industry. We had plenty of happy customers and we were making money. But, I felt like the press and market analysts were ignoring us because our software ran on Windows using a client-server model. We…

The potential benefits of public clouds are obvious to most IT execs, but so are the pitfalls – outages, security concerns, compliance issues, and questions about performance, management, service-level agreements and billing.

BlueLock may not be as well known as its competitors like Amazon and Rackspace for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), but the Indianapolis-based company thinks that if current trends hold, that may not be for long.

Best Cloud Computing Providers Awards show those companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers. Deploy and scale effortlessly in the abstracted global computing cloud. Included in the reviewing process are the price, technology, reliabilty and overall performance of the hosting company.

Three Indianapolis companies have proposed expansions that would create over 183 jobs combined. The most significant project in terms of employee is from BlueLock, a tech startup that specializes in "cloud computing," a growing form of computer outsourcing.

BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud computing and managed IT services, has been named to Nine Lives Media Inc.’s third-annual MSPmentor 100, a distinguished research report identifying the world’s most progressive managed service providers.